Tag Archive: Reference Image

These past few days, I’ve shared some scripts and tricks on how you can create a Windows 10 reference image. Next up is how to add Language Packs to your reference image. Over the years, I’ve worked with customers that…Read more

When creating your reference image for Windows 10, you might want to remove the Universal Apps for various reasons. The community have come up with several scripts to accomplish this task, and don’t want to take any credit for coming…Read more

This summer Microsoft released what they’re calling the last version of Windows, naming it Windows 10. Organizations that are looking into deploying Windows 10 will have to evaluate what scenario they will use, e.g. In-Place Upgrade, Provisioning or the traditional way…Read more

While I was configuring MDT for creating reference images at one of my customers, we noticed that in some cases when systems that were deployed through ConfigMgr using the reference image we’ve built, they would contact the WSUS server used for patching…Read more

Today I’ve released a new version of my MDT Factory Tool. Since this version include some fixes for WSUS and Application import, I suggest that you grab it right away if you’ve been using the older version. Whats new: I’ve…Read more

During the past 2 months I’ve been working on a new tool that will assist ConfigMgr administrators with creating reference images. You may know that there’s various methods that you could use to create a reference image that would later…Read more

We all know that the support for Windows XP is being dropped by Microsoft on the 8th of April 2014, more information can be found here. In this post I’ll go through the necessary configuration, requirements and steps to successfully…Read more

Now that Microsoft has released Windows 8.1 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2, lets look at how we can deploy Windows 8.1. In this post we’ll not be integrating with MDT, instead it will be a native ConfigMgr OSD scenario. Keep in…Read more

One of the new great features that I like with Windows 8.1 is that you now have the option to choose if you’d like to boot directly to your desktop instead of the start page. This article walks you through…Read more

On the 18th of October, Microsoft released Windows 8.1 to the market. You can now grab the bits from VLSC (Volume Licensing Service Center) and start to create a reference image. In this post we’ll be creating the reference image…Read more